OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Policy & Administration is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID‐19 and care homes in England: What happened and why?	80
Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to the COVID‐19 crisis	75
The next generation EU: An analysis of the dimensions of conflict behind the deal	74
The unequal distribution of administrative burden: A framework and an illustrative case study for understanding variation in people's experience of burdens	66
Social policy responses to COVID‐19 in Canada and the United States: Explaining policy variations between two liberal welfare state regimes	65
Nordic welfare states—still standing or changed by the COVID‐19 crisis?	54
Disabled people in Britain and the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic	54
Recent pension reforms in Europe: More challenges, new directions. An overview	51
COVID‐19, the Great Recession and social policy: Is this time different?	51
The COVID‐19 crisis and policy responses by continental European welfare states	49
Inequalities and poverty risks in old age across Europe: The double‐edged income effect of pension systems	49
Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to the COVID‐19 crisis in Central and Eastern Europe	44
Governing new authoritarianism: Populism, nationalism and radical welfare reforms in Hungary and Poland	40
Common shock, different paths? Comparing social policy responses to COVID‐19 in the UK and Ireland	38
Digital coping: How frontline workers cope with digital service encounters	38
Extending working lives: How policies shape retirement and labour market participation of older workers	36
In the eye of the storm…again! Social policy responses to COVID‐19 in Southern Europe	35
The causes of welfare state expansion in democratic middle‐income countries: A literature review	29
Withstanding the plague: Institutional resilience of the East Asian welfare state	22
State‐NGOs relationship in the context of China contracting out social services	19
Comparing long‐term care systems: A multi‐dimensional, actor‐centred typology	19
The complementary roles between clientelism and familism in social policy development	17
Informal social protection: A conceptual synthesis	16
Labour market liberalization and the rise of dualism in Europe as the interplay between governments, trade unions and the economy	16
From austerity‐conditionality towards a new investment‐led growth strategy: Social Europe after the Recovery and Resilience Facility	15

Fifty years of welfare state generosity	15
The consequences of non‐standard working and marital biographies for old age income in Europe: Contrasting the individual and the household perspective	14
Contextualised resistance: The mediating power of paradigmatic frameworks	13
The growth of private home care providers in Europe: The case of Ireland	13
Flexibility in individual funding schemes: How well did Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme support remote learning for students with disability during COVID‐19?	13
Carrots or sticks? A multilevel analysis of active labour market policies and non‐standard employment in Europe	13
Changing the healthcare financing paradigm: Domestic actors and international organizations in the agenda setting for diffusion of social health insurance in post‐communist Central and Eastern Europe	12
Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security	11
Managing precarity: Food bank use by low‐income women workers in a changing welfare regime	11
Welfare state change as a double movement: Four decades of retrenchment and expansion in compensatory and employment‐oriented policies across 21 high‐income countries	10
Linking macro‐level mechanisms to street‐level accountability practices. A cross‐national case study of street‐level accountability of social workers in government funded homeless shelters	10
Integrating development aid into social policy: Lessons on cooperation and its challenges learned from the example of health care in Kyrgyzstan	10
Frontline social service as a battlefield: Insights from street‐level bureaucrats' interactions with violent clients	9
Measuring and framing support for universal basic income	9
Inequalities in pensions and retirement from a life course perspective: An introduction	9
Work–family balance in the second half of life: Caregivers' decisions regarding retirement and working time reduction in Europe	9
A mechanism‐based approach to the comparison of national pension systems in Vietnam and Sri Lanka	9
Addressing loneliness and social isolation amongst elderly people through local co‐production in Japan	9
‘Nearly gave up on it to be honest’: Utilisation of individualised budgets by people with psychosocial disability within Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme	9
Efficiency and sustainability in municipal social policies	8
From “what works” to “making it work”: A practice perspective on evidence‐based standardization in frontline service organizations	8
The market made us do it: Public procurement and collaborative labour market inclusion governance from below	8
When policy entrepreneurs fail: Explaining the failure of long‐term care reforms in Poland	8
Translating social policy ideas: The Beveridge report, transnational diffusion, andpost‐warwelfare state development in Canada, Denmark, and France	8
Class politics in the sandbox? An analysis of the socio‐economic determinants of preferences towards public spending and parental fees for childcare	8
No activation without reconciliation? The interplay between ALMP and ECEC in relation to women's employment, unemployment and inactivity in 30 OECD countries, 1985–201	8
Active stewardship in healthcare: Lessons from China's health policy reforms	8
Citizen‐agency versus state‐agency at the frontline in prisons and probation services: A systematic literature review	7
Politicalized empowered learning and complex policy implementation: Targeted poverty alleviation in China's county governments	7
Education as social policy: New tensions in maturing knowledge economies	7
Is Nordic elder care facing a (new) collaborative turn?	7
Public employment services: Building social resilience in youth?	7
Social investments in the knowledge economy: The politics of inclusive, stratified, and targeted reforms across the globe	7
Buying for good: Altruism, ethical consumerism and social policy	7
Causal mechanisms in the analysis of transnational social policy dynamics: Evidence from the global south	7
Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism: Current developments of the poverty‐aware paradigm	7
Affects of policy design: The case of young carers in the Care Act 2014 and the Children and Families Act 2014	7
Central coordination, regional competition, and local protectionism: Social decentralisation in China's long‐term care reform	6
The EPSR and the Next Generation EU: Heralding a reconfiguration of social protection in South Europe?	6
Between affordable welfare and affordable food: Internationalized food subsidy reforms in Egypt and Tunisia	6
Moral framings in the Australian parliamentary debate on drug testing of welfare recipients	6
Constantly changing Nordic welfare states: A Bermuda triangle?	6
Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Towards a needs‐based distribution of the European social funds?	6
Public income transfers and wealth accumulation at the bottom: Within and between country differences in Canada and the United States	6
The Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived: A Trojan horse dilemma?	6
A critical review of cost‐effectiveness research in children's social care: What have we learnt so far?	6
Market shaping: Understanding the role of non‐government actors in social care quasi‐market stewardship	5
Fugitive coproduction: Conceptualising informal community practices in Scotland's hospitals	5
Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work: Implications for street‐level discretion	5
Integrated care and the ‘agentification’ of the English National Health Service	5

Individual need and societal claims: Challenging the understanding of universalism versus selectivism in social policy	5
Bureaucratic conflict between transnational actor coalitions: The diffusion of British National Vocational Qualifications to China	5
TheEU'swork‐lifebalance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states	5
Pension reforms, the generational welfare contract and preferences for pro‐old welfare policies in Europe	5
The power of ideas in policymaking processes: The role of institutionalised knowledge production in state bureaucracies	5
Signs of the gender revolution's second phase? Historical and cross‐national development of fathers' leave provisions	4
Dealing with drift: Comparing social care reform in the four nations of the UK	4
The long and short of it: The temporal significance of wealth and income	4
Gender, welfare state regimes and social policy beyond advanced capitalism: Pathways to decommodification in middle‐income countries	4
Implementing individual placement and support in Norway. From vocational rehabilitation to an employment scheme	4
Buffering national welfare states in hard times: The politics of EU capacity‐building in the social policy domain	4
Are attitudes in employees of public employment service in line with the principles of individual placement and support? A questionnaire‐based survey	4
Evaluating social policies: Do methodological approaches determine the policy impact?	4
Central‐local tensions in the decentralization of social policies: Street‐level bureaucrats and social practices in the Netherlands	4
Beyond path dependency: Analysing Indonesia's social policy responses to two crises	4
Information, reflection, and successful job search: A labor market policy experiment	4
Who deserves what and why during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Applying the CARIN principles of deservingness to the American welfare state	4
How does she do it all? Effects of education on reconciliation of employment and informal caregiving among Austrian women	3
Do governments account for gender when designing their social protection systems? Findings from an analysis of national social protection strategies	3
Policy success: What is the role of implementation support programmes?	3
Education and ignorance in the UK 80 years after Beveridge: The role of government and equality of opportunity	3
Accommodation and new hurdles: The increasing importance of politics for immigrants' access to social programmes in Western democracies	3
The employment of people with lived experience of disability in Australian disability services	3
E Hine: Young Māori mothers talk about welfare benefits	3
Old‐age poverty in a pension latecomer: The impact of basic pension expansions in South Korea	3
Multi‐level governance and central‐local tensions: The issue of local discretion in long‐term care policy in Italy	3
Education and active labour market policy complementarities in promoting employment: Reinforcement, substitution and compensation	3
Follow the hand that feeds you? The effects of non‐governmental cash transfers on citizenship	3
Women's management in local government: The effects of substantive representation on welfare service efficiency	3
Emergency welfare states in action: Social policy adaptations to COVID‐19 in the Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia	3
Social policy reform driven by crises: Promoting and reshaping social policy during the SARS and COVID‐19 pandemics in China	3
The ‘New Five Giants’—Conceptualising the challenges facing societal progress in the 21st century	3
Implementation structures at work. Exploring implementation and de‐implementation attempts regarding Housing First and Individual Placement and Support	3
Towards a more all‐inclusive evaluation of interventions for unemployed youth: A longitudinal investigation of participant, programme, relational and contextual factors	3
Education as a tool of social equality?	3
Same same but different? Comparing institutional performance in the long‐term care systems of Japan and South Korea	3
How divided is the attitudinal context for policymaking? Changes in public attitudes to the welfare state, inequality and immigration over two decades in Britain	3
Cross‐sectoral frontline delivery of welfare‐to‐work services for young adults with complex problems in Norway	3
Social policy learning inside the World Bank: The case of multi‐pillar pension reform	3
Accounting for what and to whom? Accountability tensions in collaborations addressing long‐term unemployment	3
The (changing) consideration of social investment in the design of welfare benefits: The case of poverty relief in Austria	3
Let's talk about our feelings: Emotional labour of community practice in times of pandemic	3
The multi‐dimensional politics of education policy in the knowledge economy: The case of Italy (1996–2008)	3
Choose your battles: How civil society organisations choose context‐specific goals and activities to fight for immigrant welfare rights in Malaysia and Argentina	3
How does self‐employment affect pension income? A comparative analysis of European welfare states	3
The implosion of the Dutch surveillance welfare state	3
Social security or insecurity? The experience of welfare participation by financially vulnerable households in the Netherlands	3
Welfare contracting with Chinese socialist characteristics: Experience of the Bohai Bay Economic Rim, Northern China	3
‘I've probably risk assessed this myself’: Choice, control and participant co‐regulation in a disability individualised funding scheme	3
Protected against all odds? A mixed‐methods study on the risk of welfare sanctions for immigrants in Germany	3
The industrialisation thesis, revisited: Understanding welfare expansion in China through social expenditure data (2000–2019)	3